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Hip-Hop On A Higher LevelWed, 25 Mar 2015 07:46:29 -0400hourly1By: Minerva Rakhanhttp://www.xxlmag.com/news/bloggers/2006/05/to-all-the-fallen-soldiers/#comment-867169
Tue, 25 Mar 2008 01:09:35 +0000http://www.xxlmag.com/?p=1963#comment-867169You can say fuck the war, fuck the president, fuck the leaders that got us into this mess, but don’t hold it against the soldiers. They have no choice in the matter. They didn’t start the war, and they probably won’t even be able to end it. Just because they volunteered to sign up does not mean that they are there to fight for the same bullshit cause that brought us there in the first place. They aren’t getting a share in the pot of oil profits. Working in the military and working in the civilian world is nothing alike. In the military, if you’re told to do something, no matter how pointless, stupid, or grueling, you do it. Without question. Without complaint. If you don’t, you are subject to punishments that can include hard labor, suspension of pay (yes, while doing hard labor), reduction in rank (meaning reduction in pay if you ever do get paid again), hard time (along with the labor and less or no pay), and possibly dishonorable discharge, which may be viewed as the equivalent, I believe as someone else already put it, of three felonies on your record in terms of getting a civilian job. No matter what your situation was before joining the military, this guarantees it will be worse after being dishonorably discharged. You can’t just up and decide to quit your job if they decide to send you to a war you don’t agree with. There’s no such thing as a two-week notice in the MILITARY. Sure, maybe having an ugly record and being alive is better than running off to die in some greedy oil war, but by the time you get there, it’s no longer as simple as just saving yourself.

When you’re a soldier, it’s not about cause. Look at the reasons people join a voluntary military. Nobody “wants” to go to war, so why would anyone volunteer themselves? Many of them may have been born poor, or had a bout of bad luck that dropped them through the cracks of life, were granted too much freedom by lazy parents that resulted in a few immature mistakes that ended up costing them well into their adult life. A friend of mine joined a few years ago. His parents couldn’t afford him a college fund or life insurance, and they both died in a car accident in less than a year after he graduated high school and moved out. He was scrounging from one minimum wage job to another, working upwards of 80 hours per week trying to make ends meet while putting himself through school part time. During that spring semester, he underwent a costly surgery and had his appendix removed. He didn’t have healthcare, and couldn’t afford the medical expenses which tainted his credit report for years thereafter. He didnt’ qualify for medicaid because he made too much money and didn’t have kids. He couldn’t go immediately back to work after surgery, and was promptly laid off from one of his jobs. With inflation racing ahead, jobs becoming harder to find for his limited education and skillset, and medical bills mounting ever higher, he was running out of options and spiraling into a deep pit of debt, lawsuits, garnished wages, and bad credit. It got to the point where he had to live out of his car because he couldn’t get approved for an apartment lease. He dropped out of school and was desperate for a way out. In the end, he joined the Marines, and this is the decision that saved him. He built himself back up to a substantial income, paid off his medical debt, received free college education benefits, had free medical care, and eventually graduated with a degree in linguistics shortly after his enlistment term was up. I didn’t intend to go off on a tangent here, but I wanted to illustrate that people don’t join the military because they just feel like going to a war.

Whatever the reason for joining, most of the soldiers in our military are not fghting in Iraq for the reason they were sent there. They fight for their family. No, not just their parents and siblngs and sons and daughters. The structure of military life is far different from that of civilian life. There is such a strong sense of brotherhood no matter where or what rank you are that is unequaled in any other environment. Your comrades quickly become your family, and that’s what we fight for. We all volunteer for our own personal reasons, but when it comes down to it, we all end up fighting for one thing: the men next to us. We choose to subject ourselves to extremes of pain, fatigue, hunger, mutilation, and death, not for oil, not for American freedom, not for glory, and damn sure not for ourselves. Whatever mission we are given, we all end up with one shared goal: to get everyone home alive. In the end, that’s all that matters. Yeah, the letters our families send us from back home are like gold to us. Even if our family turns their focus inward, worrying more about who’s going to take the trash out, and how are they going to finish their report on time for work at their 40-hour per week desk job, and every other petty problem in their microcosm of an existence that diminishes and eventually drowns out their concern for their deployed soldier. Coming home hurts, when you’ve thought of nothing but your family for 15 months and they regard you more as an uncomfortable acquaintance than as brother or sister. But no matter how thoughtless and ungrateful, the family at home is every soldier’s primary motivation for getting their job done. And for what? To be shunned and disdained by their own neighbors, peers, and the home that they longed for so much while they were stuck out in that shit hole? It’s not their fault, they know, but they won’t complain. It’s not their cause either, but they can’t explain it. Life as a soldier is so lonely. Maybe that’s what numbs the fear of death. Eventually, the only thing that matters to them is getting their battle buddies home safe and sound. Because in the end, that’s all they really have is each other. Please consider this before running your mouth about the soldiers while sipping your cocktail with enough time in your daily life to worry about the stock market or how Britney’s rehab is going. Military life is something you can never understand without having been there yourself, so if you’ve never been a soldier, then stop spewing your ignorance about them.

]]>By: SGThttp://www.xxlmag.com/news/bloggers/2006/05/to-all-the-fallen-soldiers/#comment-745034
Wed, 06 Feb 2008 21:04:56 +0000http://www.xxlmag.com/?p=1963#comment-745034Your a piece of shit. Take your welfare check and get the fuck out of America.
]]>By: Kevin Onofrio Quinnhttp://www.xxlmag.com/news/bloggers/2006/05/to-all-the-fallen-soldiers/#comment-716073
Sun, 20 Jan 2008 06:15:13 +0000http://www.xxlmag.com/?p=1963#comment-716073How Dare You. Not for a second would i ever expect to see those words written in a blog by you or anyone else. I don’t support this war at all, but i support my troops.

Don’t Hate the Player, Hate the Game.

Cause that player could be a part of your family, and deserves his/her day of memorial just like the rest of them. Right or Wrong, just because the War in Iraq is rediculously stupid, doesnt mean the soldiers are less appreciated.

Oh, and this blog? Is so fucked up as to be laughable. But you kids go ahead

]]>By: PV2 Wilderhttp://www.xxlmag.com/news/bloggers/2006/05/to-all-the-fallen-soldiers/#comment-706838
Sat, 12 Jan 2008 05:38:23 +0000http://www.xxlmag.com/?p=1963#comment-706838This may be a year after the fact, but here goes:

I think someone’s just jealous we’ll be remembered for something: Risking our lives to give what we/you have (what you and so many abuse and take for granted) to those who were born into a world that gives them no opportunity, or took theirs away because of their beliefs/gender/skin color.

While you will be forgotten. A fat, worthless byproduct of a dozen poor choices in life that all stemmed from his parents poor choices.

The Military pays for higher education, some of these posters should really consider taking advantage of pursuing one of those. Educations, I mean.

Then you’d know things that the blog’s writer didn’t.

Things such as why Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia that is edited and updated by anyone who has internet access (Which is available for free use at any library, conveniently so are REAL encyclopedias.) does not state why Memorial Day was expanded to include the valiant fallen of all military activities.

The blog writer is probably the type to cry when a rapper, someone who provides entertainment, gets murdered in a feud that they themselves stimulated out of ego to bring about their end. But when a Soldier or Marine is murdered, who’s only part they played in instigation was being an American, he’ll call them a douche bag though he’s just as guilty in their view.

Fortunately, I tend to forget people like you exist often enough to spend my, ill gotten warmongers, salary on getting me closer to where I desire to be in life.

I hope my “blind following” of my beliefs insights rage and hostility from the bloggers sympathizers.

Ignorant morons.

]]>By: SPC Brown, Craighttp://www.xxlmag.com/news/bloggers/2006/05/to-all-the-fallen-soldiers/#comment-692795
Mon, 31 Dec 2007 06:12:06 +0000http://www.xxlmag.com/?p=1963#comment-692795i am one of those dumb soldiers you are referring to, and at the time this was put up iwas in the middle of a 16 month deployment.. now im back in germany, waiting to go back in 11 months .. back to iraq, where i lost 12 people that ididnt get to come back home with.. i just want to say fuck you!! for them and their families.. you’ll never be as selfless as them.. how dare you even think that you have room to talk about this particular subject.. fuck you, you piece of shit..
]]>By: ronhttp://www.xxlmag.com/news/bloggers/2006/05/to-all-the-fallen-soldiers/#comment-592361
Fri, 14 Sep 2007 19:03:58 +0000http://www.xxlmag.com/?p=1963#comment-592361I went AWOL from the NG after Dugway proving grounds, where I guarded NBC shit. We were guinea pigs as are GI’s in Iraq. Uncle Sambo don’t care about us. So why should I guard Bush’s oil wells? thats what this war is about, OIL!
People are fodder for the Gov.
]]>By: the goochhttp://www.xxlmag.com/news/bloggers/2006/05/to-all-the-fallen-soldiers/#comment-588074
Sun, 09 Sep 2007 15:29:54 +0000http://www.xxlmag.com/?p=1963#comment-588074i agree, and moreso, i hate anyone who endorses war or joins the military for ANY reason ,you enable the murder of innocents.If you don’t believe war is the biggest racket on the planet, your naivete dismisses you from the discussion altogether.Live by the sword die by the sword and protect global corporations profits at the expense of the poor,the defenseless, and the environment.All nations are illegitimate, we are one species and our demise is inevitable.-realism not pessimism
]]>By: yupyuphttp://www.xxlmag.com/news/bloggers/2006/05/to-all-the-fallen-soldiers/#comment-550481
Fri, 20 Jul 2007 16:15:49 +0000http://www.xxlmag.com/?p=1963#comment-550481I can’t believe you and that fag dc beast use the freedom of speech that I defend and provide to disparage those of us that protect it.
]]>By: bethhttp://www.xxlmag.com/news/bloggers/2006/05/to-all-the-fallen-soldiers/#comment-325046
Tue, 13 Mar 2007 02:22:37 +0000http://www.xxlmag.com/?p=1963#comment-325046you know what you ingnorant person…. i respect the people who fight the wars for us… becuase they not only have the guts to go out and face dangers we don’t see they do it in order to give you all your rights that we as americans have…… if they din’t fight for us you would be fighting and having a different opinion… if you don’t like the or respect or even honor the people who fight for you to live free GET THE FUCK OUT you sad sadistic motherfucker…AND GO LIVE IN CHINA…. or how about some third world starving poor country. you have no reason to be here and should be sent over in a draft just to show you its not all mashed potatoes and gravy……
we all fight for our beliefs and rights.. we might not do it over seas and with guns… we do it with words and opinions… we do it by tearing others down… we use our money.. clothes… our dreams…. our morals…
so why do you not give the respect the people have a RIGHT to demand from people like you.because you feel that you are king of the shit and you don’t have to give any one respect that’s why….
becuase you are sad little homo-sapien that has no future..but to be the person asking us for if we want to supersize that or not… you were not raised with morals.. you were not raised with respect.. and it would not suprise me if you have sat in jail for the majority of life
WHAT GIVES YOU THE RIGHT TO SAY NO ONE IS MOURNING FOR THE PEOPOLE WHO FOUGHT IN IRAN-CONTRA(3)… I BET YOU A MILLION DOLLARS THE FAMILY’S OF THE LOST ARE MISSING THEM EVEN TODAY… I BET YOU A MILLION MORE THAT THEY RESPECT THE PEOPLE WHO ARE FIGHTING FOR US.. I’LL BET YOU A MILLION MORE THAT IF THEY READ THIS AND COULD SEE YOU FACE TO FACE THEY’D PUNCH YOU … AND TO ADD TO THAT I’LL BET YOU A MILLION MORE IF YOU WERE SENT OVER THERE YOU WOULD GAIN ALOT OF RESPECT NOT JUST FOR THE SOILDERS BUT FOR EVERY FUCKING BREATH YOU TAKE YOU FUCKING ASSHOLE .. ITS THE PEOPLE LIKE YOU WHO MAKE THE WORLD A BAD PLACE.. ITS THE PEOPLE LIKE YOU WHO SHOULD BE FIGHTING.. ITS THE PEOPLE LIKE YOU WHO SHOULD HAVE THEIR ASS’S HANDED TO THEM FROM THE SOILDERS YOU ARE REFUSING TO RESPECT…
in any case i cann’t change your mind or opinion … but i do hope that some one slaps you with a wake up stick and smacks your ignorant face and brings you into the reality of this world….

THANK YOU ALL SOLIDERS FOR FIGHTING FOR ME MY FAMILY MY FRIENDS…. THANK YOU TO BILL JOSH LANCE LOY STEVE FOR BEING THERE TO PROTECT US ALL… DESPITE WHAT THE SAD PATHETIC BASTARD THINKS

]]>By: bethhttp://www.xxlmag.com/news/bloggers/2006/05/to-all-the-fallen-soldiers/#comment-325039
Tue, 13 Mar 2007 02:17:57 +0000http://www.xxlmag.com/?p=1963#comment-325039you know what you ingnorant person…. i respect the people who fight the wars for us… becuase they not only have the guts to go out and face dangers we don’t see they do it in order to give you all your rights that we as americans have…… if they din’t fight for us you would be fighting and having a different opinion… if you don’t like the or respect or even honor the people who fight for you to live free GET THE FUCK OUT you sad sadistic motherfucker…AND GO LIVE IN CHINA…. or how about some third world starving poor country. you have no reason to be here and should be sent over in a draft just to show you its not all mashed potatoes and gravy……
we all fight for our beliefs and rights.. we might not do it over seas and with guns… we do it with words and opinions… we do it by tearing others down… we use our money.. clothes… our dreams…. our morals…
so why do you not give the respect the people have a RIGHT to demand from people like you.because you feel that you are king of the shit and you don’t have to give any one respect that’s why….
becuase you are sad little homo-sapien that has no future..but to be the person asking us for if we want to supersize that or not… you were not raised with morals.. you were not raised with respect.. and it would not suprise me if you have sat in jail for the majority of life
WHAT GIVES YOU THE RIGHT TO SAY NO ONE IS MOURNING FOR THE PEOPOLE WHO FOUGHT IN IRAN-CONTRA(3)… I BET YOU A MILLION DOLLARS THE FAMILY’S OF THE LOST ARE MISSING THEM EVEN TODAY… I BET YOU A MILLION MORE THAT THEY RESPECT THE PEOPLE WHO ARE FIGHTING FOR US.. I’LL BET YOU A MILLION MORE THAT IF THEY READ THIS AND COULD SEE YOU FACE TO FACE THEY’D PUNCH YOU … AND TO ADD TO THAT I’LL BET YOU A MILLION MORE IF YOU WERE SENT OVER THERE YOU WOULD GAIN ALOT OF RESPECT NOT JUST FOR THE SOILDERS BUT FOR EVERY FUCKING BREATH YOU TAKE YOU FUCKING ASSHOLE .. ITS THE PEOPLE LIKE YOU WHO MAKE THE WORLD A BAD PLACE.. ITS THE PEOPLE LIKE YOU WHO SHOULD BE FIGHTING.. ITS THE PEOPLE LIKE YOU WHO SHOULD HAVE THEIR ASS’S HANDED TO THEM FROM THE SOILDERS YOU ARE REFUSING TO RESPECT…
in any case i cann’t change your mind or opinion … but i do hope that some one slaps you with a wake up stick and smacks your ignorant face and brings you into the reality of this world….
]]>By: PFC Kannenberghttp://www.xxlmag.com/news/bloggers/2006/05/to-all-the-fallen-soldiers/#comment-325025
Tue, 13 Mar 2007 02:00:53 +0000http://www.xxlmag.com/?p=1963#comment-325025Hi there! Just one of the “D-bags” over here making a life for my family the same way that countless Americans have over the years. While everyone is entitled to their opinion, some people should just keep it to themselves. “Anyone who ever died in any military action on behalf of the US is worthy of being honored or otherwise remembered.” Why is this a misleading concept again? It would appear to me that(you know, even though I’m worthless enough to be spared)these people took time out of their lives, some voluntarily and some not, to fight for something that they believed in, whether it be for love of country or love of duty, so in my eyes they deserve more than just a memory, but that’s all we are able to give them now so I remember them every day. They’ve taken the initiative to do more than just bitch and moan about what’s going on in the world and act instead of sitting on their lazy spoiled ungreatful ass, complaining about what other people are doing with their lives. Even though I don’t fully agree with the implied tasks of the war, someone’s got to do what we’re doing. People like to talk about ways to fix what’s wrong with the government, but until you figure out how to literally execute these things, shut the fuck up about your solutions, ok? Until you’ve done what we do, carried the responsibility we’ve carried, put up with the endless BULLSHIT that we have, as far as I’m concerned, you have no right to bitch. What makes a true Soldier different from assholes like you, is the fact that dispite my anger toward your opinion(s), I’ll still lay down my life for you. You’re welcome you fucking prick.

Have a good day though!

]]>By: DC Beasthttp://www.xxlmag.com/news/bloggers/2006/05/to-all-the-fallen-soldiers/#comment-322102
Fri, 09 Mar 2007 22:50:42 +0000http://www.xxlmag.com/?p=1963#comment-322102I have no sympathy for the soldiers in Iraq, its not like they’re being killed in historic battles or firefights. Majority of the dudes get killed by walking past a random car. They are dying for no reason at all. Its sad that they are dumb enough to be over their so may I say it, FUCK THE SOLDIERS, two times…
]]>By: www.galaxy-guild.comhttp://www.xxlmag.com/news/bloggers/2006/05/to-all-the-fallen-soldiers/#comment-253596
Thu, 18 Jan 2007 00:46:42 +0000http://www.xxlmag.com/?p=1963#comment-253596It’s funny how people are so eager to condemn the soldiers in Iraq. yet, have you walked amile in their shoes. Maybe the UN didn’t approve but, why do we need their permission to protect lives. Yes, civilians have perished. but, this is the nature of the beast. People die, it’s war. Yet, there is still very few lives lost compared to what it would be, if we just carpet bombed Irag. It’s those young men and women over there, on the ground giving it their all. That has kept the death toll down.
What do they get for doing the job they were given. A rash of Bullshit from the do nothings of the country. Can anyone say Veitnam. Same story playing out all over again, to some degree. The soldiers do what is asked of them and the Country crucifies them for it. What a waste of space some people are.
I hope all of you that have talked down of the soldiers in Irag, rot in a pool of your own dumb arogance.
]]>By: PV2 Keslerhttp://www.xxlmag.com/news/bloggers/2006/05/to-all-the-fallen-soldiers/#comment-187240
Thu, 16 Nov 2006 04:20:47 +0000http://www.xxlmag.com/?p=1963#comment-187240You miserable piece of shit. We’re just lookin for a better life for ourselves, that’s all. We don’t believe in this bull shit, but we want a better future for our familys. May you come home from your burger flippin’ job one day to find your entire family raped, slaughtered and strung the fuck up. You worthless fuck.
]]>By: PISSED-OFFSOLDIERhttp://www.xxlmag.com/news/bloggers/2006/05/to-all-the-fallen-soldiers/#comment-109874
Sat, 09 Sep 2006 09:15:07 +0000http://www.xxlmag.com/?p=1963#comment-109874The reason to honor our fallen servicemen and women is simple:
Because they had the guts to do something that fucking vaginas like you mother fucker would never do. And if you want to try to prove that you are not a pussy, come over to Richmond California where I live you fucking piece of amphibious shit.
]]>By: drswervehttp://www.xxlmag.com/news/bloggers/2006/05/to-all-the-fallen-soldiers/#comment-60239
Fri, 21 Jul 2006 03:13:15 +0000http://www.xxlmag.com/?p=1963#comment-60239Hey real talk. I was in the atl talking to some people about that last year. if it wasn’t for all the soldiers in the military doing their JOBS, your ass would be there because of the draft. I’m tired of you and the rest of the country getting your hate all mixed up. people in this country don’t know how good they got it sometimes i had the task to serve in iraq in 2003. if any of you folks on here was in the army, you know i was part of the first wave. hate bush and the policies, but don’t hate the soldiers. we only doing our jobs. we don’t make policies. we just do our jobs. it don’t take a liberalist to figure that out. next time you want to talk bad about soldiers, think about all the shit you talking about now and the soldiers who died for you way of life that you take for granted so much. By the way, i bought this mag every month while i was in the war and i’m glad you didn’t write this crap while i was out there
]]>By: kingtee3http://www.xxlmag.com/news/bloggers/2006/05/to-all-the-fallen-soldiers/#comment-54551
Fri, 14 Jul 2006 13:00:55 +0000http://www.xxlmag.com/?p=1963#comment-54551you fucken prick ass dumb fuck!!!we got soldiers over there tryna help out these worthless cumstains while they are immigrating to our countries and given handouts ,then they get there cousib=ns to blow ouyr shit upo!!! fuck yous and fuyck them ya bastards
]]>By: Lyrik07http://www.xxlmag.com/news/bloggers/2006/05/to-all-the-fallen-soldiers/#comment-34287
Fri, 09 Jun 2006 09:18:48 +0000http://www.xxlmag.com/?p=1963#comment-34287I hope XXL isn’t paying this monkey to put his ignorant azz commentz on here.
]]>By: Debbiehttp://www.xxlmag.com/news/bloggers/2006/05/to-all-the-fallen-soldiers/#comment-33009
Wed, 07 Jun 2006 00:45:00 +0000http://www.xxlmag.com/?p=1963#comment-33009I am a mother of a fallen hero who, at 18, was killed in Iraq. My son went in the army to help others as well as himself. He was killed when an IED blew up his humvee after taking medical supplies to the Iraqi citizens. We are not rich and he did this because he wanted to serve his country even though I was very much against it. I don’t need a memorial day to remember my son. That day is for others to remember. I think it is very rude and ignorant for anyone to disrepect the military in any way. Unless you have been in their shoes or their families, you have no room to talk.
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